meghal
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Seems that after spending money and time on special effects, animation, technology and character make-up and costumes, the studio ran out of money for script writers. After spending 3,5 hours in theatre, you are left with thinking "What the hell was that chaos about"?
The movie picks up where the first movie ended. The problem is that the movie never progresses past the initial introduction.
This movie reminds of all the Bollywood "masala" movies of 70s and 80s. Characters avenging their the death of their loved ones, the "sweet and gentle at heart" characters, clansman ship, animals remembering their past and helping the characters at time of peril ("Haathi Mere Saathi", "Maa" or "Teri Meherbaaniyaan"). All the sub-plots in this movie have been done to death by Bollywood.
Yes. We understand the allegory here - about European invasion of America. But that allegory is fun to watch when it is subtle - not drilled on the viewers' forehead by the director. Yes - we can see that James Cameron suffers from "white guilt", but he does not need to spend 3.5 hours to show that.
I hope the next Mr. Cameron tries to focus more on script and less on the technology on Avatar 3.
The movie picks up where the first movie ended. The problem is that the movie never progresses past the initial introduction.
This movie reminds of all the Bollywood "masala" movies of 70s and 80s. Characters avenging their the death of their loved ones, the "sweet and gentle at heart" characters, clansman ship, animals remembering their past and helping the characters at time of peril ("Haathi Mere Saathi", "Maa" or "Teri Meherbaaniyaan"). All the sub-plots in this movie have been done to death by Bollywood.
Yes. We understand the allegory here - about European invasion of America. But that allegory is fun to watch when it is subtle - not drilled on the viewers' forehead by the director. Yes - we can see that James Cameron suffers from "white guilt", but he does not need to spend 3.5 hours to show that.
I hope the next Mr. Cameron tries to focus more on script and less on the technology on Avatar 3.
I avoided all the hype surrounding this movie, and instead waited until it was on Netflix, four years after its release. I am glad I didn't spend my hard earned money on this piece of trash.
There is a song from the 1959 movie "Dhool ka Phool", which goes as "Tu Hindu Banega Na Musalman Banega, Insaan Ki Aulaad Hai Insaan Banega", the gist of which is "One is just a human being irrespective of his/her religious upbringing". The movie takes this idea and stretches into a 2.5 hour worth of torture.
The movie borrows its opening from "The Terminator", where an alien is sent to earth and hence, is completely naked. The rest of the movie is just the message "All religions are absurd, all humans are same" hammered again and again, until one looks forward for the movie to end.
On his planet, the alien can communicate with fellow planet-people just by touching each other. Yet, this alien has the ability of vision, speech and hear sounds. We will let the evolutionary biologists discuss the intricacies of such evolutionary abnormality.
The movie uses all the tired cliches to drive its point
Foreign locales - check Boy-girl romance - check Indo-Pak relationship - check Hindu-Muslim love - check Comedy - check Emotions - check Dysfunctional father - daughter relationship - check
Some of the events in movie take place in Bruges. I still don't understand what Bruges had to do with entire movie. Those events could have happened in Bombay or Karachi and could have still been relevant.
Bollywood is not very well-known for being subtle in its movies, and this movie is no exception. In every scene, we are reminded about the inconsistency between the religious beliefs and religion being of no relevance to daily living.
Acting wise - every major actor seems to think that one has to over act-over emote to be known as good actor. Nothing is normal - everything is over-the-top in the movie. Aamier wears a permanent exclamation on his face - yes Aaamir, we get it - you cannot understand the way people function on the planet. But I thought that after spending few weeks in Delhi, you might get used to the absurdity of life - at least an intelligent person would.
Anyway, the movie appealed to masses and has raked in millions. So at this point, finding faults with this movie is moot. But if you still haven't watched movie, do yourself a favour, and instead spend time with your loved ones, pursue a hobby or just enjoy the life. You will be much happier.
There is a song from the 1959 movie "Dhool ka Phool", which goes as "Tu Hindu Banega Na Musalman Banega, Insaan Ki Aulaad Hai Insaan Banega", the gist of which is "One is just a human being irrespective of his/her religious upbringing". The movie takes this idea and stretches into a 2.5 hour worth of torture.
The movie borrows its opening from "The Terminator", where an alien is sent to earth and hence, is completely naked. The rest of the movie is just the message "All religions are absurd, all humans are same" hammered again and again, until one looks forward for the movie to end.
On his planet, the alien can communicate with fellow planet-people just by touching each other. Yet, this alien has the ability of vision, speech and hear sounds. We will let the evolutionary biologists discuss the intricacies of such evolutionary abnormality.
The movie uses all the tired cliches to drive its point
Foreign locales - check Boy-girl romance - check Indo-Pak relationship - check Hindu-Muslim love - check Comedy - check Emotions - check Dysfunctional father - daughter relationship - check
Some of the events in movie take place in Bruges. I still don't understand what Bruges had to do with entire movie. Those events could have happened in Bombay or Karachi and could have still been relevant.
Bollywood is not very well-known for being subtle in its movies, and this movie is no exception. In every scene, we are reminded about the inconsistency between the religious beliefs and religion being of no relevance to daily living.
Acting wise - every major actor seems to think that one has to over act-over emote to be known as good actor. Nothing is normal - everything is over-the-top in the movie. Aamier wears a permanent exclamation on his face - yes Aaamir, we get it - you cannot understand the way people function on the planet. But I thought that after spending few weeks in Delhi, you might get used to the absurdity of life - at least an intelligent person would.
Anyway, the movie appealed to masses and has raked in millions. So at this point, finding faults with this movie is moot. But if you still haven't watched movie, do yourself a favour, and instead spend time with your loved ones, pursue a hobby or just enjoy the life. You will be much happier.
After having read negative reviews about this movie and seeing it in the bottom 100 list on IMDb, I decided to try out this movie. Obviously, it wasn't worth spending even a single cent on a movie that has Akshay Kumar as the main lead and is trashed universally. I was lucky enough to be able to borrow this movie from the public library.
The movie sets its low standards right from the opening credits - a dancing foetus in scenes that are just a rip-off from opening credits of Bond movies. The movie just keeps trying to fathom the abyss of movie making and never tries to redeem itself. Reminds me of what late Roger Ebert wrote about "Freddy Got Fingered" - "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." There is nothing in this movie that is worth mentioning - because this movie lacks anything that has semblance to the art of movie making - acting / story / direction / dialogues. This movie does not even fall in the category "so bad it is good". The movie is just based on the recent Bollywood premise that if you hire popular actors, spend money on promotion and promote it as a "brainless entertainer", there is a certain demographic that will flock to theatre to spend their (or their parent's) hard earned money. It is just like flipping a coin - some movies end as winners, some end being losers. Equally disappointing is the fact that movies that were released after "Tees Maar Khan" have followed this formula and have earned big bucks.
I do not have any admiration for Akshay Kumar's acting skills since I saw "Deedar" in theatres 20 years ago. And after 20 years, his wooden face and expressions haven't changed a bit. To expect any acting from Katrina would be akin to expect that mortal can create miracles and cure human beings. But what is painful is to see talented actors like Anjan Shrivastav, Sudhir Pandey or Apara Mehta in roles that are an insult to their acting talents. And somehwere along the lines I have a suspicion that this movie, although credits Farah Khan as director, is ghost directed by her hubby, Shirish Kunder (who has four or five other credits to his name in this movie). Farah has done a decent job in "Om Shanti Om".
I have given one star only because a)IMDb does not allow negative star ranking b) you can see Farah's choreography skills in the "Sheela" song.
The movie sets its low standards right from the opening credits - a dancing foetus in scenes that are just a rip-off from opening credits of Bond movies. The movie just keeps trying to fathom the abyss of movie making and never tries to redeem itself. Reminds me of what late Roger Ebert wrote about "Freddy Got Fingered" - "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." There is nothing in this movie that is worth mentioning - because this movie lacks anything that has semblance to the art of movie making - acting / story / direction / dialogues. This movie does not even fall in the category "so bad it is good". The movie is just based on the recent Bollywood premise that if you hire popular actors, spend money on promotion and promote it as a "brainless entertainer", there is a certain demographic that will flock to theatre to spend their (or their parent's) hard earned money. It is just like flipping a coin - some movies end as winners, some end being losers. Equally disappointing is the fact that movies that were released after "Tees Maar Khan" have followed this formula and have earned big bucks.
I do not have any admiration for Akshay Kumar's acting skills since I saw "Deedar" in theatres 20 years ago. And after 20 years, his wooden face and expressions haven't changed a bit. To expect any acting from Katrina would be akin to expect that mortal can create miracles and cure human beings. But what is painful is to see talented actors like Anjan Shrivastav, Sudhir Pandey or Apara Mehta in roles that are an insult to their acting talents. And somehwere along the lines I have a suspicion that this movie, although credits Farah Khan as director, is ghost directed by her hubby, Shirish Kunder (who has four or five other credits to his name in this movie). Farah has done a decent job in "Om Shanti Om".
I have given one star only because a)IMDb does not allow negative star ranking b) you can see Farah's choreography skills in the "Sheela" song.
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